Victim in hatchet attack on subway shoots video after the incident, praises man who saved him.

No way was Mark Pickett going to end his day watching a hatchet-wielding madman attack a fellow train passenger.

So he stopped him.

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Pickett was on a Bronx-bound No. 1 train Saturday night when he saw a man pull a hatchet out of a bag and swing it at an unsuspecting passenger. Before the blade connected, Pickett sprang into action and tackled the hatchet man, pinning him to the subway car floor until police arrived.

“I just couldn’t let him hit that guy in the back of the head," Pickett told the Daily News. "I would’ve felt terrible had that happened.” That, he said, was going through his mind at the time. "Not my safety, until later,” he said.

Cops arrived shortly after the 10:30 p.m. takedown at the W. 66th St. and Broadway station and arrested Reinaldo Reyes, 46.

Reyes was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital West, authorities said. Cops said Reyes was injured in the fracas — but nothing close to what would have happened to his alleged victim if Pickett hadn’t stepped in.

Reyes, 46, of New Jersey, had even more weapons in his bag — including an ax with what appeared to be dried blood on it, mace, two pipes and a knife, police said.

He was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, 10 counts of weapons possession, menacing, unlawful possession of a noxious matter — the mace — and two counts of disorderly conduct.

Pickett, a break dancer, said he first noticed Reyes at the 50th St. Station, and said he had a “crazed look in his eye."

He said the victim, Anthony Castro, 30, "was talking to somebody in front of him, totally oblivious to what’s going on.”

Mark S. Picket poses for a photo Monday at a No. 1 line station. Picket restrained a deranged man who was about to swing a hatchet at a straphanger. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News) (Barry Williams/for New York Daily News)

Castro said he was standing in the car next to Reyes, who was seated. “He looked a little off or a little drunk,” Castro told The News.

“You could hear the metal pipes or whatever that’s in his bag,” he recounted. "He goes to pull out the ax. The back part of the ax, the pointed part, got caught in the bag. He’s struggling to take it out to the point where he rips a hole in the bag.

“Once he got it out, I told the guy, 'Listen, get out the way, he’s trying to hurt you.’” Pickett said.

Castro turned around. “I see the guy coming at me with the ax,” he recounted.

“We all have a crazy view of how New Yorkers are — we don’t talk to each other, we don’t get along," he added. "But Saturday night at 11 o’clock we all came together and were helping each other out. It was a nice moment in a crazy moment.”

Pickett wasn’t ready Monday to use the H-word. “I sure don’t feel like a hero,” he said.

"That night and last night I was shaking in my sleep," Pickett said. "I couldn't sleep. I think it was the adrenaline. I'm a break dancer, so I'm used to adrenaline but this was different.”